I did something today on a lark, something very good for me, but totally unexpected and
unscheduled. It was so unlike what we're instructed to do as fiction writers. We're
encouraged to outline or do detailed character sketches, have daily writing goals and discipline.
But there's something to be said for just getting good things done in life. That can
also be true for writing. It's not wrong to make detailed character sketches or create
outlines. But We can spend so much time thinking and planning and developing that
we never get around to just telling the story.